After zero hour: States as “custodians of universal human culture,” or “guardians of advanced art”

The emergence of radically new, avant-garde movements in German music and throughout Western Europe after WW2 has often been seen as expressing a strivings to create on a tabula rasa, in order to create distance from the horrors of the recent past. In the countries of the communist bloc, th...

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Main Author: Milin Melita
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts - Institute of Musicology of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts 2017-01-01
Series:Muzikologija
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Online Access:http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/1450-9814/2017/1450-98141723041M.pdf
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spelling doaj-0feade2f736b440b87dea9e0bc39538b2020-11-24T23:08:53ZengSerbian Academy of Sciences and Arts - Institute of Musicology of Serbian Academy of Sciences and ArtsMuzikologija1450-98142406-09762017-01-01201723415710.2298/MUZ1723041M1450-98141723041MAfter zero hour: States as “custodians of universal human culture,” or “guardians of advanced art”Milin Melita0Institute of Musicology SASA, BelgradeThe emergence of radically new, avant-garde movements in German music and throughout Western Europe after WW2 has often been seen as expressing a strivings to create on a tabula rasa, in order to create distance from the horrors of the recent past. In the countries of the communist bloc, the imposed ideology of socialist realism also created a sharp break, similar to that in the West, except that Zero Hour was conceived in quite a different fashion, as a move in the opposite direction from Western modernism. The case of post-war music in Yugoslavia is examined under the light of the fact that the country did not belong to either bloc. [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 177004: Identities of Serbian Music from Local to Global Frames: Traditions, Changes, Challenges]http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/1450-9814/2017/1450-98141723041M.pdfZero Houravant-garde musicsocialist realism and musicCold WarIron CurtainSerbian musicYugoslav music
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After zero hour: States as “custodians of universal human culture,” or “guardians of advanced art”
Muzikologija
Zero Hour
avant-garde music
socialist realism and music
Cold War
Iron Curtain
Serbian music
Yugoslav music
author_facet Milin Melita
author_sort Milin Melita
title After zero hour: States as “custodians of universal human culture,” or “guardians of advanced art”
title_short After zero hour: States as “custodians of universal human culture,” or “guardians of advanced art”
title_full After zero hour: States as “custodians of universal human culture,” or “guardians of advanced art”
title_fullStr After zero hour: States as “custodians of universal human culture,” or “guardians of advanced art”
title_full_unstemmed After zero hour: States as “custodians of universal human culture,” or “guardians of advanced art”
title_sort after zero hour: states as “custodians of universal human culture,” or “guardians of advanced art”
publisher Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts - Institute of Musicology of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
series Muzikologija
issn 1450-9814
2406-0976
publishDate 2017-01-01
description The emergence of radically new, avant-garde movements in German music and throughout Western Europe after WW2 has often been seen as expressing a strivings to create on a tabula rasa, in order to create distance from the horrors of the recent past. In the countries of the communist bloc, the imposed ideology of socialist realism also created a sharp break, similar to that in the West, except that Zero Hour was conceived in quite a different fashion, as a move in the opposite direction from Western modernism. The case of post-war music in Yugoslavia is examined under the light of the fact that the country did not belong to either bloc. [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 177004: Identities of Serbian Music from Local to Global Frames: Traditions, Changes, Challenges]
topic Zero Hour
avant-garde music
socialist realism and music
Cold War
Iron Curtain
Serbian music
Yugoslav music
url http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/1450-9814/2017/1450-98141723041M.pdf
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